Show BETTER ROADS IN MISSOURI movement hat has passed boom stage rand good ent for otate when the public roads bureau of the department of agriculture ag ri culture arnado its ita study ot roads covering a period which ended tu lit 1913 missouri did not figure among the lending leading states elates either in its mileage of improved roads or in progress made in road building while come of the southern states i with smaller resources in a financial way showed striking evidences of progress says farm progress they had been building cheap roads of such materials as wore were immediately at hand and that Is what missouri Is doing today with suc such li energy and en cn 4 that the ilia next survey of the toad road situation is sure to tell a different story this will be a good thing tor for state pride and as a state advertisement ti but vastly more significant Is tho the direct benefit derivable from roads that can be traversed ut tit all seasons with full loads every good road that Is built today and tomorrow and every road that Is improved will go to make missouri a 4 better state in good roads road day in missouri which the people may live their nor mal social life a better state for the school child a better state in which to spend a working life and live out a contented ol old diage cage the good roads movement in missouri has bas passed the boom stage and become a settled policy finding its strongest reason for being in tho silent client argument of good roads coads already built its goal Is a state in which every market shall be accessible ces sible to ilio ilia banners fan far ners wagon tho the year around and a public tonti ment in favor of good roads so strong that no other condition will be tolerated |